NOS, NL 3, Friday June 8th. At this last day of the G8 the only thing this "young and hip" NOS journal gives attention to is that Putin is prepared to cooperate on the missile defence system with America. A whole 9 seconds is given to the G8 subject, poor Paris Hilton and the art of tattoo are getting main focus in this broadcast. That's what our young future leaders are interested in of course.

NOS, Thursday June 7th. This is what Bush and Putin are really talking about. And of course they smile and shake hands as if they were best friends.

RTL4, Tuesday June 5th. And in Dutch...on RTL 4 only 36 seconds."The missile defense issue has seriously disturbed the relationship between Russia and the US."

ARD, Tuesday June 5th. For people who speak German: Compare this visit of Bush to Prague to the Dutch, English and French media. At the end of this footage the commentatot says: "....Unfortunately Putin did not yet respond to this harmonious attitude Bush was displaying during his speech today."

TV Monde, Tuesday June 5th. Bush visit to Prague en francais...Can someone analyse this?

Forget prime minister, Mr Blair, or even plain old Tony. The new way to address the prime minister, we learn, is "Yo Blair".
That at least is how George Bush greets the PM in private, according to unguarded remarks they both made in front of an open G8 microphone.

We also learn how Mr Blair refers to international commerce as "this trade thingy".

And there was some strong language used as well. The US president apparently believes the Middle East conflict could be ended if only pressure were put on Syria "to get Hezbollah to stop doing this shit". (more) (less